Line-casting machine.



W. G. WHITE.

LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1912.

1,102, 179. Patented June 30,1914

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Kai/2 W. G. WHITE.'

LINE CASTING MACHINE.

MPLICATION FILED MAR 20, 1912.

Patented June 30, 1914.

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l N V E N TO R 24302711416 &. ZMa'Ze ATTORNEY W. G. WHITE.

LINE CASTING MACEINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.20, 1912.

Patented June 30, 1914,

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UNITED STATES ragrnivr orrron.

WOOLMAN G. WHITE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL TYPESETTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YOBK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINE-CASTING Mac Irma.

Application filed March 20, 1912. I Serial No. 685,114.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, \VooLMAN G. \Vrnrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful In'iprovements in Line- Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in line-casting machines, and more especially to those of the linotype class, and the primary-object of the invention is to provide relatively simple and eilicient means Whereby single type may be produced simultaneously and in conjunction with the production of the usual lines of type, the casting of the single type well as the trimming and ejecting thereof being preferably effected by the same mechanisms which perform these functions with respect to the slugs or lines of type, thereby avoiding the necessity of providing duplicate sets of mechanisms as well as simplifying the con-- struction, and also enabling the present invention to be applied directly to linotype machines of the types now in use and Without requiring modifications or alterations thereof. 4

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements, and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification,

In the accompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mold wheel, the adjacent vise jaw, and the assembling mechanism as usually employed in the well known linotype machine; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the upper portion of the mold wheel, showing a single type mold embody ing the present invention combined with a line casting mold as used on linotype machines; Fig. 3 represents a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2 showing the relation of the single type mold and its matrix to the fixed vise jaw and the metal pot; Fig. 4 represents a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1 and showin a multiple letter matrix bar for the sing e type mold; Fig. 5 is a View, partly in section, showing the mold wheel rotated to ejecting position and showin the ejecting mechanism as well as the ga leys to receive the line slug and the single type;-

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of'a multiple letter matriir bar such as that shown,

for example, in Fig. 4; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the fixed vise jaw showing a an provided with a single matrix letter forthe single mold; and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a single type such as that produced by the single mold of the present invention.-

Similar parts are designated by thesame.

reference characters in the several views.

The present invention provides means whereby a supply of single type such as used, for example, in composing headings and other sorts of work may be produced inexpensively and .with facility during the usual operation of line-casting machines and without requiring any special care or attention from the operator.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the means for producing the single type is shown combined with the means for ,producing'slugs or lines of type so thateach cycle of operations of the machine which casts the slugs,;trims and ejects 'theslugs and serves to effect these same operations -with respect to the single type, that is to Patented June 30, 1914.

say, the single type are produced simultanev ously and with the same mechanism which produces the line type. p

In the present embodiment of the invention, the single type producing means is adapted for application directly to the well known linotype machine and so much of the and it is to be understood that modifications and changes may be made in the detail con struction or in the relative arrangement of the parts in order to enable the invention to be applied to machines of 'diflerent typfi fmo and to, enable the best results tained.

In the present instance, 1 designates {the mold wheel which corresponds-t1? the mold" wheel of the usual and well own linotype machine and its operation, is welltknpwn in the art that detail mentionthereoiis imneeessary. This mold wheel carries a mold 2 which in the present instance-corresponds to the mold usually employed for casting slugs or l nes'oi -typta on fthelwell known linotype machine is shown in the acoom-= i linotype muehines, The mold has a cavity 2 one (ll: of which 18 adapted to form a metal receiving emmection with the ports 4;

of the spout if, and the opposite side of the mold cavity 2% adapted to lhe closed by n lin- ,scmhled mutt which are alined lorlieil -.-twceii radius Lille and station or vise (3 nu l 7 ft t tively, The iucr; ol matrices may he lu ll lll to the eastitalvle means suclnlor ially employed on Well fun and the metal may into the mold cavity by mecliamsm i('li as that commonly employed 5 for such purpose, the spout. :3 in the present instance living etmiaiued in thenietal polQS and metal may he ejected through the spout hy the urauel pure, or plunger operatin; in the cylinder 9,

To 'l arilital'e the app ication of the pres ent inventi n to mold mechanism. such as that. commonly employed on linotype Inaehines, it preferable to position the linecasting mold 2 in such a manner as to accon'nuodate the single type casting mold at one end thereof, the ise jaw 7 in the present instance having a fixed relation to the end ll) of the l ne-casting; mold.

The means provided in the present in stance for producing a eingle type eoinprises an auxiliary mold 11. which may,

shown, emlwdy a block formed with a slot 12 which open at one end of the block and is closed at the other end and the top and hot tom of the l loel ,:ind slide 13 is adjustable lougitmlinally of the slot and serves to very the width or set-way of the single type hodics, the cavity in which the type are cast bring in the present instance of a fixed height although as described the mold eavity may he adjusted for type bodies of difler ent widths. The slide 13 may be provided with any suitable means for guiding it prop crly in its; movements, it being shown in the present instance provided with ribs 14lwhirh rxliijlc in orreeponding grooves in the mmll and dillerent means may he pror icd to! ectlirm' and retaii'iing the slide 13 il i crcnl. ad ustmmlts, a screw 15 being in the p esent instance, the stem l6 \hly fitted in the lower por- 2, mold hloclc ll and the screw coop rulrs u 5th a threaded surface 1? on the lower edye of the slide 13. an indicator 18 i 1 l the screw to taeilitate adjustment of the single mold cavity for the pi .duction of single type hodiee of different widths. The mold block 11 may he removu'ulv held in pouition on the mold wheel hy t relatively fixcd support if) at the bottom and a tarmi headed screw 20 which engages a l 1 on the top of the n old block. This for casting single type occupies a posiand as algim'zilu' The usual ejector sli the same plane with the mold 2 for slugs or lines of type and the single l type casting mold is preferably arranged immediately adjacau't to one end of the mold 2 as shown, thus eimhling the cavity 12 of the auxiliary or single type mold to receive metal from the metal pot through a ll'll'l', 32.

The single type, according to the present invention, are cast simultaneously with the casting of the slu 's or lines oi type and ill" forent means in v he unaided 'l'or pu tioning; a matrix at the arpwpriatr Phil of the eznity of the enxiliarv mold. in the present. insatauee, the fixed ri e law 7 formed with a groove or recess 23 and this r is adapted to receive and position 21 her or memher hearing an appropriate matrix. In Figs. 1, 4 and 6, 1: matrix hur Qiis shown which bears a pluralilv of matrices 25 of dill erent characters and this her is adjustalole longitudinally of the groove or recess 23 in the vise jaw and means is no videtl for setting and positioning the liar with any one of the matrices in cooperative relation with the nl'lXillm'y mold cavity. In the present instance. the matrix liar i l is provided with a number of notches 26 which correspond in number and position to the matrices thereon, and a spring-pr ed lockingz plunger 27 is provided which cooperat-es with the notches and thereby retains the matrix her in ditl'erent set positions. The bar 24; may also be provided a. the proper side with an index 28 which hears letters or characters eorresponding t the matrircs on the bar, and a gage 29 serves to iudit'ate by the scale which matrix character is in eoopcrative relation with the auxiliary mold cavity.

It is, of course, to he understood that the auxiliary mold is in the same plane with the mold which costs the slugs or lines of type and when the spout of the metal pot is in t'oopcrative relation w'th the line-easting mold, it also cor'uperates with the auxiliary single type casting mold and, hence, each operation of the machine to cast a line of type sierves to cast a single type. The bar no 30 hearing a matrix clmructer 31 corresponds to the lllll' in Figs. 4' and 6 except that the bar 3) hours only a sin 'le character and it is hehl in proper position by a relatively statio'aany' projeotion 32.

Asusual',-' in linotype machines, the mold wheel rotates after each costing operation, and this rotation of the mold wheel serves to trim the foot of the :slugand to bring the sine into ejecting position; The trimming knife 33 serves to trim the slug in the usual way and as the single type is in alinement with the. slug, this same knife will trim the single type and continued rotation of the mold wheel will bring the line-casting mold and the auxiliillly single type mold into the ejecting position which illustrated in Fig. 5. 34 of the well known linotype machine f in the present inec, the ejector bla: thereof being positioned to properly register with the mold cavity 3 of the line-casting mold, and this same ejector slide serves in its operation to eject the single type from the auxiliary mold. For this purpose, the mold slide is provided with an auxiliary ejector 256 which is capable of movement longitudinally with respect to the ejector slide and it capable of being locked in a manner to re ciprocate in unison with the ejector slide by a lug 37 on the auxiliary ejector which is adapted to cooperate with a latch 38. When the line-casting and auxiliary molds are in ejecting position, the cavities thereof will register respectively with the ejectors 35 and 3(5 and the operative stroke of the ejector slide \vill cause the slug and the single type to be simultaneously ejected from their rcspeotive molds. The usual galley 39 may he provided to receive the slugs or lines of type, and an auxiliary or supplemental gab ley it) may he provided beneath it to receive the single type. A bridge piece 41 may he provided to insure a'proper transfer of the single type from the auxiliary mold to the galley 40. The pusher 42 havin followers "l3 and l t operates to assemble tr e lines of type and the single type after delivery to the respective gallcys. I

In operation, the mold wheel carrying the line-casting mold and the auxiliary single type mold is brought in the usual manner to the casting point. Where the line of a m-- bled matrices is presented to one side 0 cavity of the linecasting mold and the spout of the metal pot cooperativewith the oppo site side of: the line-casting mold cavity. This same operation serves to PUSillOll. the matrix bar 24 or 30 as the case may he, in rooperative relation with one end of the auxil iary mold cavity and the same spout of the metal pot in cooperative relation with the opposite end of the auxiliary mold, cavity. While the elements occupy such relation, a charge; of metal is pumped in the usual manner from the metal pot through. the spout thereof and into the line-casting mold. and also into the auxiliary single type mold, therehy casting simultaneously a slug or line of composed tvpe and a single type.

Obviously. hy appropriately adjusting the matrix oar 24 or substituting other matrix bars for the bar 24: or 30. as the case may be, single type bearing any selected haracter may be prwlm-ed row-urmrntly with the pr0 duction of the usual slugs or lines of type matter and without in any way interfering therewith.

After the sing or line of composed type matter and the single type have been cast in the manner stated, the mold W168i is roiatcd in the well known manner to bring; the slug and single type into ejecting position, and during: such rotation of the mold wheel, the Eases the slut; and the single "type concurrently with type are carried past the trimming knife which serves to relative the m re of metal thereon and to pro erly dress ti e dg s oi both the slug and the y e type, will crations being performed prr-il 'rahiy hr 1. saint: trimming knife, such bring product-1i in the present ins-tau owing to the l cation oi. the line-casting and sing-gm type molds in the fame plane.

When the mold wheel is in cit-(ting posh tion, the slug in the ililL("lll!li n the single type in lluauxilmrv alinement with the main and in; blades 0 l'ncmlwrs fii amt and a single operative strut. of ejector slide iIYP/S to imultvne the sing and single t tire molds and to inli respective galleys 3i) and handled by any appropriate In order to discontinue single type whtn desired. it essary for the operator to rclce. on the auxiliary ejector tow and t turnmch lng clump: upon the ejector sli-lc may wh to remove the hip"; from tiw mold but the pr \iously will remain in ti 1 milmry mo ing the next eating; operation, fl. iary mold will not re 1* an mole The present, invention prmid re.- simple and etlil'i nt mean for 1 wt? a, li -1n All or lines of type, the single type being etlc lo of the same elements slugs and. YXI4IIQIP"3E', ing means of the. pre pahle of being applied 9' facility to line casting niac type lass, the simpliril v of enabling the same t he fir mnu outed t such machines wit hour, ulterior-inn; with any other parts thereof,

I claim my in ention 1. Th combination f a line ting mold and an auxiliary mold located ll he same plane and. operative cu} rently theite to produce single type, T .115.

In a. linotype mold, casting and an auxiliary plane with the l: operative with Fair; dune single type 34 The combination means for producing lines of type, an Means located in t same plane with the line producing means for eoi'rcurrently prod can; rlllgl'lt. character 126 type,

4. The comlii fan, of a metal pot, a linecasting mold adapted to positiofted iy front thereof, and an auxiliary single typecast-inn mold also adapted to be positioned 18o linerustine therewith, in the same ld and cc=- n: o ens to pro- 12 

